The Penn's Grove record., 1887-08-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Bismarck, by advice of his physic-
ian, now takes daily horseback rides.
1t is said that 12G clergymen sailed
from New York for Europe in a single
day, recently.
"A license to practice law has been
issued to David Royston, coIored, at
Ashland, Miss.
The Sacramento Chief of Police
was fined lately for giving a saucy
answer to a lawyer.
Alliance, New Jersey, has a jew
ish colony that deyotes great atten-
tion to berry culture.
The Government is said to own
S75,000,000 worth of property upon
which no insurance is carried.
"A pious family in New York Is
said to have converted a parrot from
profanity and taughtit a prayer.
An American eagle measuring
seven feet four inches from tip to tip
has been shot at West Newton, Pa.
"A Florida woman has made a bed
quilt containing G 1000 pieces, each less
than the size Of an average thumb-nall.
Two lions died from the efcts of
the heat lately, while in their cages,
travelling with a menagerie in Corn
wall.
in addition to the telephone lines
now in operation between Paris, Havre
and Brussels, a third n with Amster-
dam is spoken Of.
Boston, where about 10, 900
quarts of milk arr We daily, is expect
ing heI milk business to be conducted
by a monopoly hereafter.
The other day, for the first time
in the history of Cumberland county,
New Jersey, it is said, a colored man
served on a coroner's jury.
An eel has been captured in Geor-
gia, measuring five feet, six inches in
length, nine inches in circumference,
and weighing six and a bali pounds.
-Colored people in som parts of
the South have been somewhat extern
slvely taken in by a white man, who
goes about making Masons Of them at
81 per head.
Coffee Rice is the name of a gen.
tleman who has just been appointed
Director of one of the agricultural
districts Of California by the Governor
OF that State.
The Supreme Court of Minnesota
has discharged a prisoner who was con-
victed by a jury partly composed of
women, on the ground that women
cannot legally act as jurors.
"A young woman in Fonda, New
York, Is said to have gone on hic-
coughing for three months past, except
when under the influence of opiates,
until she is nov a mere wreck.
Georgia, whose curlosltles have
Oeen quiescent lately, starts a revival
with a story of a dog in Lewis county
whose. hair turned white in a single
night. through sorrow and grief.
"A party of Mormon missionaries,
who had been making numerous con-
verts in Augusta, Georgia, and viciu-
ity, have been driven out of the dis
trict by Regulators" OF that place.
"A student OF Vanderbilt Unive-
sity, Tennessee, is reported TO have
beaten the worlds record In high kick
ing, having succeeded in hitting a
mark at the height of 8 feet 81 inches.
"A brass band. whose fourteen
members are all newsboys, exists in
New Orleans, and it's services are in
great demand. 1t is said to be the
only newsboys' band in the United
States.
Tile ''oldest Mason" in Massachu-
sets has passed away. He was Colds
bury Pond, who died at Franklin re-
Gently, after having been a member Of
the Masonic Order for sixty-seyen
year,.
"A mother and daughter, who had
not seen each other for eighteen years, h
have just had a sad reunion In a house
of correction at Milwaukee. They ex-
press a determination to start life anew
together.
A sufferer from paralysis of the
throat, In MedoE, Tennessee, is SAID to
have taken no food, drink or nourish-
ment of any kind since the middle of
March, but is now so feeble that he
must soon die.
An ice man in New York is said
to have answered, when asked to ex-
plain what he meant by saying that 1t
would be better for the public If the
ice men had better wages; weigh
your W ice and see."
While eating peanuts. some days
ago. a little daughter of a Mlddletown,
IN. " policeman drew a piece Of
kernel into her throat with her
breath, causing a swelling of the bron-
chial tubes that resulted in her death.
-Melchoir Werner, of Dubuque,
Iowa, who is now in his 95th year, and
who wos with Napoleon In the Water
loo, Leipsic and Russian campaigns, is
among those recently awarded a PEN
sion under the Mexican Pension act.
"A bronze statue of Iallas Promo
chOs has been found at Athens about
forty feet below the surface. The
work has been pronounced by the
archaeologists residing at Athens TO
belong TO the period Immediately pre-
ceding the Persian war, and to be the
best example of it's kind yet found. 1t
is about eight inches in height.
i. B. Dodge. or Amherst. a cousin
OF the late President Pierce, has pre-
scented to the New Hampshire Histor-
zeal Society, a red coat worn by a
trooper in the days when New Hamp-
shire was a province. 1t has been kept
for years in a large homemade linen
sheet, which Is almost as much of a
curiosity as the coat itself. The coat
is excellently preserved.
AT the University of Erlangen, a
Gfty-ive-year-old student, after five
terms has obtained the diploma of DR..
of Medicine and Surgery. He had
formerly been a postmaster, and served
as captain in the Franco-Prussian
War.
"A deaf mute was before a Peters
burg, Virginia, court the other day on
the charge of burglary, ana the indict-
was gravely read to him by the
clerk. Under instructions from the
Court the Jury returned a verdict OF
not guilty.
Since the discovery of gold in Vic
torIa, Australia, in 1851, the produc,
ti0n of that met u, up to the end of
1885, amounted to Sl,074, 5j9,720. The
PRODUCTION has diminished of late years
The same is I true Of the New Zealand